They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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